Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Day #2 of Bird-Day Week: Angry Birds Can Toss Game

I have thrown quite a few parties, but most of them have been for little girls. This week our party will be for boys...lots and lots of little boys. Very active little boys. I need activities. Lots of activities. Not coloring and art projects like I do for my daughters parties...I need lots of hands on...active...activities. So today I spent the day painting cans. What? Hold on, there is a point here. I painted tin cans for one of the Angry Bird games. Take a look:

I think these turned out really cute! I started with cans of vegetables. They had a pull top lid, so the can was left with a smooth, clean edge after it was opened.

I started spray painting the cans, which gave a nice smooth finish, but the color just wasn't right. If the color isn't right, it just doesn't look right. I took our Angry Bird stuffed animals to Michaels and used them as my color palette to compare to the new line of paints from Martha Stewart.

These paints are awesome. The colors come out nice and thick, so they cover well. You know what I mean...the difference between a quality paint and the cheaper ones that are watery. This is good paint. The colors I used were Yellow Jacket, Beetle Black, Tartan Red and Spring Pasture. These colors are ideal for painting the red bird and the pigs.

I painted a layer of Spring Pasture over the spray paint. Next I took a picture I found online and enlarged it on the copier 400x the original size. I cut out the snout and eyes as my pattern.

I placed the pattern on the can and drew a dotted line around the edges for my guidelines. This helps to ensure that I keep the correct proportion and will keep my figures looking more accurate.

I took some of the Spring Pasture green and mixed it with some white I had. I needed to have a lighter version of green to paint the snout.

Next I painted the white portions of my outline. This is a lot like coloring in a coloring book. Take a fairly small brush that is not really soft, it will make it easier to control your paint.

Next I painted the red and black parts of the pig. I apparently got ahead of myself here, because I forgot to take step by step pictures...sorry.

You can see how close the can looks to the original picture. I finished off each eye with a small dot of white inside the black pupil. This makes them look a lot more realistic.

I will coat these tomorrow with a clear sealer. I am hoping this will help keep their faces intact for the party, but I am assuming they will begin to chip off as soon as the boys start hitting them. These are not likely to be long term toys, but they are great for the party.

I found these small, red playground balls at Party City. I am using the same technique I used on the cans to paint Angry Bird faces on the front of the balls.

I outlined my design with a permanent marker.

I painted in my areas with two coats to create a good solid color. Again, the Martha Stewart paint covered really well. The white paint I was using, was not so easy. I will buy the Martha Stewart paint next time.

After the solid areas were dry, I went in with a fine tip brush and outlined my pieces. I think it turned out really great.

saw this on pinterest. THANK YOU! my 5yo son loves angry birds. for his 5th bday we had angry bird games including small cardboard boxes that he stacked and threw his newly made-by-mom stuffed birds from Obsessively Stitching's tutorial. But I didn't make enough piggies (yet). This is a great alternative, especially for outside play where his plush birdies and piggies shouldn't go. : )

Love this! Great idea! just found your blog & will for sure look around the rest of your blog...btw: where is your follow link?Would love it if you passed by my blog, maybe followed back if you liked:) Thanks for this post!

I am trying so hard to find those red playground balls, but I couldn't find them anywhere at Party City- do you remember what aisle you found them in? If you could let me know, my email address is heatheresplin at yahoo dot com. thanks! Such a cute idea!

If you have a dollar tree near you they have the balls there for $1.00 each! I am planning my sons 6th birthday party now and have had great luck finding them there as well as green, yellow, and blue ones! : )

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My grandson wants an angry birds party for his 9th birthday. This idea with the cans is great. I'm having the party outside so there's not much clean-up. Do you have any other ideas for games/decorations. He had rather come to Nana's for his party than anywhere because I try to have unique party ideas...but need help on this one!

This should definitely be something you can use again next year. We had a few issues because a couple got stepped on. However, we were in the park with some really excited Kindergartners...accidents happen. I would imagine a school carnival would have a table or something that would help eliminate that possibility. Good luck! Send me a picture if you get a chance...I would love to see!

Thank you SOOOOOOO much for such a great party game idea! I'm going to get on this ASAP as the Angry Birds party I'm doing is less than 2 weeks away. This will be SUCH a hit for all the 1st graders that will be there (my daughter included!) THANK YOU!!! YOU ROCK!

Seriously, given that Angry Birds is all the rage, this game would be perfect for a field day or end of the year school carnival. The color from that Martha Stewart paint are dead on! If you glazed the cans, I'm sure they would hold up well year after year too, {to address the above comment}.

Hi! When would you need them by? I have considered it. I haven't been blogging for awhile cause I just moved and I am over my head in new home stuff. However, it is something I would consider... Let me know when you would need them. Also, just saw a bunch of new Angry Bird stuff at Target today in the back to school section...you might want to check it out.

I was just trying to make these for my 5yr old nephew for his birthday, but I'm second guessing. I got the pull-top lids like you said, but I sliced my finger a couple times when cleaning the cans even with the "smooth, clean edge". I don't want to give him something he could hurt himself with. Did anyone else have this issue?

We received as a gift one of those can openers that opens the can without even having to touch the can once it starts. It leaves a smooth opening. (It's small enough to store in a drawer. We were skeptical, but it works.) One of those might help.

I'm wondering how these have held up and if anyone has used a glaze to finish it off as someone mentioned? Also, would using other materials for the features (e.g. eyes) like felt help them lasts longer? Just some ideas I'm wondering about now. I'm not much of a crafter.

Also, can anyone think of another character theme that would work well with this method? I know you could use anything you want, but Angry Birds really fits the game. Isn't there a Super Mario Brother game that involves cracking Yoshi's egg? Ideas like that are what I'm wondering about since this is such a great idea.

I'm the Editorial Assistant for Fun Family Crafts and I wanted to let you know that we have featured your project! You can see it here:

http://funfamilycrafts.com/angry-birds-can-toss-game/

If you have other kid friendly crafts, we'd love it if you would submit them. If you would like to display a featured button on your site, you can grab one from the right side bar of your post above. Thanks for a wonderful project idea!

I love to see and read when someone makes somesthing fun everyone knows about. And its so laughable simple that a kid could do it. I will show this to my son so he can make these things for his cousins birthday